English Quiz 2

A. Read the passages below and answer the questions!

Future Food

In March 2017, about 25 people were invited to a kitchen in San Francisco, California, for a tasting event.
On the menu? Fried chicken. “This is some of the best fried chicken I’ve had,” one guest said.

The compliment was extra special considering the source of the meat. It had been grown in a lab by
scientists from Memphis Meats. The company makes meat by safely extracting cells from animals such as
chickens, ducks, and cows. Then it feeds the cells nutrients. Those cells grow and multiply, forming muscle,
which is meat.

Memphis Meats is one of several companies in the United States and around the world making cellular,
or lab-grown, meat. Many people think it’s better for the planet than raising animals for food. Others
aren’t so sure.

Why Cellular Meat?

The world’s population is expected to grow to nearly 10 billion by 2050, according to the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). That’s almost 2 billion more people than there are today. Eric
Schulze is a vice president at Memphis Meats. He thinks feeding so many people will be tough. FAO says
people could eat 73% more meat in 2050. “With current meat production methods, there aren’t enough
resources” such as land and water to meet that need, said Schulze.

Traditional meat production also requires lots of cows. And cows release methane. This gas traps heat in
the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change.

Raising cows and other livestock takes up space, too. Currently, 77% of the world’s farmland is used to
grow crops to feed livestock or for the animals to graze on. Using more land for livestock will lead to
deforestation.

But cellular-meat production requires fewer cows and less land. Schulze says the cells taken during one
extraction can make more meat than “any single animal could ever produce.” Just how much land is
needed? “You only need the land required for the facility” where the meat is made, Elliot Swartz said. He’s
a scientist at the Good Food Institute, a group that promotes cellular meat and plant-based “meat”.

1. Where was the tasting event take place?

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2. What makes the food special?

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 3. Where did the source of meat had been grown?

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4. What do people think about cellular meat?

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5. How much is the world’s population expected to grow in 2050?

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6. Who is Eric Schulze?

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7. What makes cellular meat better than regular meat?

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8. What will happen if people use more land as farms?

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9. How many percentage of land that are used for farmlands?

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10. Do you think cellular meat is better option than regular meat?

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Teen Finds New Planet

NASA recently announced a new planet. It was discovered by 17-year-old Wolf Cukier during his summer
internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in Maryland. Wolf monitored data collected from TESS,
a NASA satellite. TESS stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Its mission is to find planets outside
our solar system.

Wolf noticed a signal from planetary system TOI 1338. TOI stands for TESS Object of Interest. “I thought
it was a stellar eclipse, but the timing was wrong,” he said, according to NASA. “It turned out to be a
planet.”
The planet is called TOI 1338 b. It’s nearly seven times the size of Earth. It’s “like Tatooine from Star Wars”
because it orbits two stars, Wolf said.

Below is an interview of Wolf Cukier regarding his internship at NASA.

Tell us about your internship at NASA.

I got the NASA internship as part of the science-research program at my high school. My job was to look
through previously collected data from the TESS.

What is TESS?

TESS is the telescope satellite that launched a couple of years ago to collect data. It was a joint
collaboration between NASA and MIT [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology].

How did you find the new planet?

It took some time. I was working with my mentor at NASA, Veselin Kostov. We were trying to find a
circumbinary planet within the TESS data. A circumbinary planet is a planet that orbits two stars at the
same time—so like Tatooine, from Star Wars.

I found about a hundred potentially interesting targets. I brought all of them to my mentor. But one was
the most exciting of them all. I put about 10 asterisks next to it in my spreadsheet.

How do you feel about all of the attention your discovery is getting?

All the coverage is kind of overwhelming, because I thought it would make a small ripple in science news
and that would be about it. But this is like the 17th or 18th interview I've given! It amazes me how much
this has been covered.

What advice do you have for kids who aspire to make scientific discoveries?

I would tell them to just do stuff! I joined the science-olympiad team at my middle school, and that was a
great experience. I'm still doing science olympiad now in high school. I would tell people that if they want
to do science, just start doing science: tinker with stuff, or do a project.

1. Who is Wolf Cukier?

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2. What did he do at NASA?

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3. What is TOI 1338 b?

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4. What does TESS stand for?

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5. What is TESS?

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6. Who is Veselin Kostov?

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7. What did Wolf do after finding the planet?

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8. How did Wolf feel after finding the planet?

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9. What is Wolf advice for kids?

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10. What do you think of Wolf’s new planet discovery?

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B. Write a story (based on your imagination) by continue this sentence! Write at least 6 lines.

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